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G. F. RAMM.

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APPLICATION FILED 00129, i917.

Patented July 6, 1920.

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' APPLICATION FILED OCT. 29, 19]].

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awoewtoz UNITED stares GEORGE E. BAD JIM, OF DEL MONTE, CALIFORNIA.

BACK.

Application filed October 29, 1917.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE F. RAMM, a citizen of the United States, residing at Del Monte, in the county of Monterey and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Racks, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in racks of the type used by laundries to hold the piles of laundried wearing apparel of its patrons before the apparel is wrapped for delivery.

The racks for this purpose are of the portable type and have an open top and front. The racks are approximately 9 feet long and 7 feet high and contain four or more shelves upon which articles of wearing apparel belonging to the various patrons of the laundry are placed by the assorter in piles after the laundrying of these articles has been completed.

It is now the practice for the assorter when placing a laundried article upon the shelves of the rack to copy with chalk upon the front of the shelf the identifying character with which the article is marked, so that the articles bearing the same identifying characters may be collected in one pile for the wrapping and delivering thereof, or to place upon the article, or shelf a card or tag containing such characters.

I find from experience that where cards and tags are placed upon the articles or shelves they require frequent handling which not only requires considerable time but permits the cards or tags to become mixed and often times hidden from view, so that the patrons of the laundry frequently receive articles of wearing apparel which do not belong to them, thus causing annoyance to the patrons of the laundries and its employees.

When the identifying characters are marked on the front of the shelf with chalk it is necessary for the assorter to reach upwardly a considerable distance when writing the designating characters upon the shelves adjacent the top of the rack, and when writing upon the shelves adjacent the bottom of the rack, the assorter must stoop, or squat upon the floor. In either instance the assorter is in an uncomfortable position which usually results in the identifying characters being marked upon the shelves in a careless, or incorrect manner.

To overcome this annoying feature inci- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 6, 1920. Serial No. 198,915.

dent to the sorting of laundried wearing apparel I provide a rack having detachably connected with the front thereof in line with the shelves a plurality of blackened strips upon which the identifying characters may be marked.

Another object .of the invention is to so construct hooks and plates and arrange the same upon the rack and strips that a strip may be supported upon the rack in a convenient position for writing the indicating characters thereon, and afterward readily connected with the rack below any shelf desired.

With these and other objects in view, the invention resides in the novel combination and arrangement of parts, which will be hereinafter described and particularly pointed out in the claim.

T he preferred embodiment of the invention has been illustrated in the accompanying drawings, although no restriction is necessarily made to the precise details of construction therein shown, as changes, alterations, and modifications within the scope of the claim may be resorted to when desired. A

In the drawings Figure l is a perspective View of a laundry rack constructed in accordance with the invention.

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary horizontal section on the line 22 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a front elevation of one of the strips.

Fig. at is a perspective view of the plates with which the blackened strips are pro vided.

Fig. 5 is a detailed perspective view of one of the hooks for supporting the strips.

Like characters of reference denote corresponding parts throughout the several views in the drawings.

Referring now to the drawings in detail the letter A designates a laundry rack of the type now employed in laundries for holding the piles of assorted wearing apparel.

The rack A includes a base 5 from which rise end walls 6 and a rear wall 7. The end and rear walls of the rack A. serve to support a plurality of shelves 8 upon which the laundried articles are arrangedin piles. Extending vertically of the rack A. and arranged centrally of the front thereof is a strip 9, to which and the front faces of the strip ends are secured hooks 10. The hooks 10 which are arranged below the shelves 8 are formed from metallic strips 11 which are offset between their ends, as at 12 to space a the bills 13 of the hooks from the shanks 14" which are connected with the rack A by securing elements 15. Supported upon the front of the rack A in line with the shelves 8 are strips 16 which are blackened, so that identifying characters corresponding with the identifying characters upon the pile of wearing apparel upon the shelves may be marked upon the strips with chalk. Secured to the outer face of each strip 16 adjacent its ends are plates 17 upon one side edge of which is formed a flange 18 which extends outwardly from the outer face of the strips to contact with the bills of the hooks 10 at the ends of the shelf in line with the strip, thereby locking the strip against movement longitudinally of the rack A.

. To facilitate the positioning of the ends of the strips 16 behind the bills of the hooks on the ends of the rack A I provide each strip 16 central of its outer face with another plate 19 at opposite sides of which 1 form flanges 20 for contact with the bills on the hooks'on the strip 11.

hen it is desired to connect one of the strips 16 with the rack A, for identifying the various piles of assorted laundried articles thereon, the assorter writes upon the front face of the strips with chalk identifying characters corresponding to those on the piles of laundried articles. The assorter now stands in front of the strip 11 and holding the marked strips 16 in both hands places the bill of one of the hooks on the 11 between the flanges on the plate 19 through their on the strip, after which the strip 16 is lowered to rest upon the offset portion of the hooks adjacent the shelf with which the strip is alined, the flanges on the plate 19 engagement with the -bill on the hook on the central strip insu'ti s the strip 16 remaining in a horizontal position, so that the plates 17 at the ends of the strips 16 will be received behind the bills of the hooks at the ends of the rack A.

.The plates 19 not only serve to guide the strips 16 into position upon the racks but also act as an auxiliary means for looking the strips against movement longitudinally of the rack.

From the foregoing description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings it is apparent that a laundry rack has been provided embodying a simple and inexpensive indicating device which is highly efiicient for the purpose intended.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new, is

The combination with a rack comprising a vertical row of shelves, of hooks secured along the front of the rack and spaced from the edge of the shelves, indicia bearing strips removably secured in said hooks and disposed along the front edge of the shelves to divide the latter into separate individually indicated spaces and flanged plates carried by the strips and engageable with the hooks to hold the strips against longitudinal movement. r

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

GEORGE F. RAMM.

Witnesses: H. G. JORGENSEN, M. JORDAN. 

